Wire coil carrier



July 7, 1964 D. v. STROCK WIRE con. CARRIER Filed Dec. 12, 1962 INVENTOR DONN V. STROCK ORNEY United States Patent This invention relates to carriers for coiled wire, strand, strip or analogous materialand isespecially'directed to a carrier adapted to receive for storage, transport or -t'helike a plurality of coils or annularbundles thereof dis posed in substantially coaxial relation with respect to a" vertical axis coincident with the principal axis of the carrier.

A coil carrier of the general nature of that to which the invention relates is shown and described in United States Letters Patent 3,021,010, February 13, 1962, to Robert A. McMasters which comprises four identical tubular elements each having complicated bends in several planes which are difiicult and expensive to form as well zfis to assemble for welding in constructing a carrier there- It is therefore a principal object of the present invention to provide a carrier eminently suited to performance of the functions of that disclosed in said patent but which may be manufactured by less complicated and consequently less costly procedures without sacrifice of strength or coil carrying capacity.

Other objects, purposes and advantages of the invention will hereinafter more fully appear or be understood from the following description of two slightly difiering embodiments thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one of said embodiments;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view corresponding to FIG. 1 but illustrating the other of said embodiments;

FIG. 4 is a top plan view thereof, and

FIG. 5 on a smaller scale is a side elevation of the carrier with a plurality of coils rendered in dotted lines to indicate their relation when loaded upon it, this figure representing interchangeably both of the above embodiments of the invention as viewed from the left in FIG. 2 or 4, as the case may be, from which aspects the differences are not apparent.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing the carrier illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2 is formed principally from metal pipe or tubing, hereinafter generically termed pipe, and comprises a standard S including an identical pair of uprights 1, 1 and an identical pair of gussets 2, 2 with a base 3 supporting the whole. The base likewise is a piece of pipe bent to form an open or hollow square rounded at the corners and having its ends joined together at a weld 4; to this base at its corners the lower outwardly directed end portions or feet of uprights 1, 1 are secured by welds 5, the feet being formed to extend inwardly therefrom substantially in the plane of the base to bends 6 equidistant from the corners of the latter. From these bends the main or upright portions of the standard rise at slightly converging angles to other bends 7, which lie in the planes of bends 6 respectively and thence extend angularly and oppositely inward to substantially 90 bends 8 adjacent the center of standard S where the uprights are spaced apart a short distance and with gussets 2, 2 define a central aperture 9, the gussets being formed by making single approximately 90 bends 10 in each of two short lengths of pipe and being united proximate their ends by welds 11, 12 to the uprights adjacent the median bends 8 in the latter.

The other embodiment of the invention more particularly illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4, in which the parts bear the same reference characters respectively as in FIGS. 1 and 2 but with the addition of a prime is identical with-that just described save for theinclusion of an auxiliary base 13 lying in the same plane as outer base 3. Auxiliary base 13 consists 'of'a'piece of pipeformed into a hollowsquare with its ends secured together by a weld 14ml of size suchthat whendisposed within base 3 its slightly rounded corners will meet the'midpoints of the proximate sides thereof to'whi ch they are respec also being welded, as at 16, to uprightsl at their respective bends 6, the auxiliary base thus firmly retained in e the plane of the base providing a measure of reinforcement to the carrier as a whole as well as affording a rudimentary socket for a block or other rectangular projection (not shown) for centering and holding the carrier on a coil unwinding table or other appropriate support.

It is thus apparent each upright of the carrier has but five bends in all, four of which are comprised in two pairs, namely 6, 7; hence these bends may be made in a single plane prior to the making of the final median bend 8 which forms the upright into a 3-dimensional shape and this succession of bending operations will normally be followed in the interest of simplicity and economy, while each gusset 2 comprises but the single bend 10. The base likewise, while requiring four bends, lies in a single plane so it too may be readily constructed with little elfort and expense preparatory to securement of the uprights to it, as is also true with the smaller auxiliary base when used. In consequence my carrier requires no special skills for its construction beyond those ordinarily found in shops in which pipe bending and welding equipment are available and can be produced at minimum outlay for material and labor.

Moreover being made from tubular parts throughout the carrier has maximum strength in proportion to its weight and when loaded as in FIG. 5 with a plurality of coils C of wire or the like may be transported with the aid of ordinary materials handling equipment, or if used for inactive storage permits a second loaded carrier to be superposed upon it by stacking, the ability of the carrier to receive in its base the upper end of another identical one facilitating this operation and also permitting a plurality of carriers to be stacked together in nesting relation when not in use; thus a number of them may be moved from place to place as a unitary relatively compact package occupying but little more space than required for a single carrier alone.

While I have herein illustrated and described with considerable particularity certain embodiments of my invention I do not thereby desire or intend to restrict myself solely thereto as changes and modifications may be made in the several parts and in their means of assembly if desired without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States:

1. A carrier for coiled material comprising a standard including a pair of identical uprights having juxtaposed median bends in fixed spaced opposed relation, each upright having portions diverging outwardly in a common plane fromits median bend and thence downwardly in slightly divergent relation to adjacent corresponding downwardly extending portions of the other upright, both uprights having their ends turned outwardly from said last mentioned portions in a common plane substantially parallel to the plane of said median bends, a substantially rectangular base receiving an end of one of said uprights within the apex of each pair of adjacent sides, curved gussets fixed to both uprights adjacent their median bends for maintaining the uprights in said relation, the gussets being welded to the uprights and the ends of the latter to the base, and a substantially rectangular open Patented July 7., 1964 auxiliary base coplanar with the base having the apices of adjacent sides welded to the sides of the base proximate their midpoints and the sides of the auxiliary base welded to the standard. I t

2. A carrier for coiled material comprising a standard including a pair of identical uprights having juxtaposed median bends in fixed spaced opposed relation, each upright having portions diverging outwardly in a common plane from its median bend and thence downwardly in slightly divergent relation to adjacent corresponding downwardly extending portions of the other upright, both uprights having their ends turned outwardly from said last mentioned portions in a common plane substantially parallel to the plane of said median bends, a substantially auxiliary base welded to the standard.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS D. 35,246 Stowell Oct. 29, 1901 2,828,933 De Pew et al. Apr. 1, 1958 3,021,010 McMasters Feb. 13, 1962 

1. A CARRIER FOR COILED MATERIAL COMPRISING A STANDARD INCLUDING A PAIR OF IDENTICAL UPRIGHTS HAVING JUXTAPOSED MEDIAN BENDS IN FIXED SPACED OPPOSED RELATION, EACH UPRIGHT HAVING PORTIONS DIVERGING OUTWARDLY IN A COMMON PLANE FROM ITS MEDIAN BEND AND THENCE DOWNWARDLY IN SLIGHTLY DIVERGENT RELATION TO ADJACENT CORRESPONDING DOWNWARDLY EXTENDING PORTIONS OF THE OTHER UPRIGHT, BOTH UPRIGHTS HAVING THEIR ENDS TURNED OUTWARDLY FROM SAID LAST MENTIONED PORTIONS IN A COMMON PLANE SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO THE PLANE OF SAID MEDIAN BENDS, A SUBSTANTIALLY RECTANGULAR BASE RECEIVING AN END OF ONE OF SAID UPRIGHTS WITHIN THE APEX OF EACH PAIR OF ADJACENT SIDES, CURVED GUSSETS FIXED TO BOTH UPRIGHTS ADJACENT THEIR MEDIAN BENDS FOR MAINTAINING THE UPRIGHTS IN SAID RELATION, THE GUSSETS BEING WELDED TO THE UPRIGHTS AND THE ENDS OF THE LATTER TO THE BASE, AND A SUBSTANTIALLY RECTANGULAR OPEN AUXILIARY BASE COPLANAR WITH THE BASE HAVING THE APICES OF ADJACENT SIDES WELDED TO THE SIDES OF THE BASE PROMIXMATE THEIR MIDPOINTS AND THE SIDES OF THE AUXILIARY BASE WELDED TO THE STANDARD. 